/lit/ - Literature

>>10923520
How old are you?

I can only speak for the Army. Your journalism / combat camera school is at my old duty station. Nice weather (even winter kinda) and beautiful forests, and the eastern shore is nice, but the nearby areas kind of suck. As a student you won't be allowed to fraternize with cadre or permanently stationed enlisted. If you're older/have adult life experience, being treated like a child might bother you. There isn't anywhere to left off steam nearby except Baltimore and DC, and they're both trash.

Once you graduate you'll receive order to go to a unit, and that could be literally any unit in any corps of the Army. Intelligence, chemical, armor, aviation, engineers, infantry... anything. In years past you would have deployed with your unit and documented the mission downrange. Now more than likely these kids are doing public affairs or putting out official zines or something.

Because it is relatively peacetime, and I haven't checked the in-out calls in years and never seen the promotion points for that job, but I can tell you right now promotion past Sergeant will be nigh impossible. The MOS itself might not even be availble when you go to MEPS, and you'll have to choose something else or withdraw your application. Happened to me, actually. I wanted to be a Cryptologic Linguist. 0 slots available at the time. I got my second pick, instead. Instead of enduring two+ years of hell learning a foreign language and suffering in a training environment, I went to a six month school by the beach and was then stationed in paradise. It all worked out in the end, I think.

If you're really interested, go to /k/. They have a military enlistment general.